SMRP18 – Electrical Motor Maintenance with Howard Penrose

Motor maintenance is very important because the electric motors are vital parts of every machinery. There is a trend in the organizations that they don’t pay much attention to the motors. This is also because of the lack of communication between mechanical and electrical technicians. Sometimes, they are not trained and other times, their roles are responsibilities are not clearly defined. This creates great confusion in the mind of the cross-sectional departments and motors end up either not being maintained. Another reason behind motors not being properly looked after is that the technicians don’t have the training to do so.
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SMRP 18 – What is Machine Learning with Philip Garcia

Reliability is a very wide term and has numerous applications in different industries. With the new technologies, concepts, and reliability solutions based on iIOT, Cloud servers, and distributed computing, the reliability programs do everything on any kind of machines. Machine Learning plays a huge role in doing these wonderful things. Machine learning can be used to do enhanced condition-bases monitoring. There are a number of variables that we need to take care of if we want to prevent failures ahead of time and increase the uptime of the assets. This is a very generic application of Machine Learning.
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Change Management with Scott Deckers

The organizations are always going through one or the other change. Whether it’s the change in roles and responsibilities, the change in the technology or the change in the CMMS itself. Everything changes in the industry all the time and it is always at a higher rate than the organizations keep up with it. When we talk about the change, it always starts with the change in processes. When a business process changes, everything else changes with it. Whenever a change is to be implemented, the first question that pops up in everyone’s mind is ‘WHY’.

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4 Tips to Elevate your Coaching with Lisa Brownlee

Coaching is one of the key activities that help individual employees bring out the best of themselves to the table. It helps in maximizing their performance by making the best use of their abilities. A good coach helps the trainees to focus on the work they are doing. He facilitates them in every way he can so that they would improve their work by themselves. It can be a hard job sometimes because it’s a two-way street. The coaching will only be effective if the employee and coach are both receptive to the learning. They need to be willing to make improvements.

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What’s New with SDT with Allan Rienstra

Condition based monitoring is good for the equipment to do predictive analysis. Ultrasound helps greatly with this part. SDT is one of the leading ultrasound solutions companies in the world and they have introduced a new ultrasound tool to make the lubrication process better in the facilities. This new tool is called SDT-340 and it is combined with UAS4.0. SDT-340 collects machine data based on the ultrasound sensors and the new Ultra Analysis Suite detects even the slow moving machine parts where even a teeniest of rotation occurs in the systems. That is what makes it unique along with other upgrades that it had built-in.
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